RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2023:5758)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194369

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:5758 advisory.

- Ansible: malicious role archive can cause ansible-galaxy to overwrite arbitrary files (CVE-2023-5115)

- python-django: Potential denial of service vulnerability in ``django.utils.encoding.uri_to_iri()`` (CVE-2023-41164)

- python-django: Denial-of-service possibility in django.utils.text.Truncator (CVE-2023-43665)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b56bb5cf

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5758

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2233810

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2237258

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241046

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 194369

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-5758.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/28/2024

Updated: 4/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5115

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ansible-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-controller-venv-tower, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-django, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-django, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-django, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3x-django

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/16/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-41164, CVE-2023-43665, CVE-2023-5115

CWE: 1333, 400

RHSA: 2023:5758